I read history at Oxford, and I have a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Prior to coming to Brasenose, I was a Stipendiary Lecturer in History at Lady Margaret Hall from 2022-2024. I’ve also taught history as a fixed-term Lecturer in Modern European History at Cardiff University and as a Teaching Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.

I teach eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and European history, alongside papers on historiography, Tocqueville and approaches to history.

I’m a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France. My research focuses on historiography, the history of philosophy and the history of political thought in this period. I’m especially interested in the development of French liberal historiography and in the philosophical formation of nineteenth-century French liberalism and eclecticism. My research centres on the work of Victor Cousin, François Guizot, Germaine de Staël, Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi, Benjamin Constant, Maine de Biran and Théodore Jouffroy. I also work on the reception of German idealist philosophy and Scottish common sense philosophy in nineteenth-century France.